Teacher
Giancarlo
Scarchilli
“Everyone acts except a few good actors.”
“Everyone acts except a few good actors.”
Giancarlo Scarchilli is a Roman director and screenwriter. He lived in London from 1974 to 1976. In those three years he intensified his writing of short stories and poems. Upon returning to Italy, he became the closest collaborator of Sergio Citti and Vittorio Gassman.
As a collaborator in the direction and/or screenplay he took part in “Two pieces of bread (1978)”, “Minestrone (1980)”, “From father to son (1978/82)”, “Dreams and needs (1984/ 85)” and “Gassman Story (1985/86)”. He contributed, like author, to the first part of the theater show “Fa male il teatro” (director and performer Vittorio Gassman) together to Alberto Bevilacqua, Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Lerici, hector Scola, Lina Wertmuller, Bernardino Zapponi, Caesar Zavattini. In the same period he made, as a director, documentaries and advertisements for Chiquita, Michael Jackson, BNL, David Zard, etc. He also films the seminars held in the Bottega Teatrale in Florence by Vittorio Gassman, Anthony quinn, Ettore Scola, etc. In the nineties he combined his work as a screenwriter with that of cinematographic director.
The course will deal with the analysis of the text, trying to understand the topic covered in the script or monologue by highlighting the most dramaturgically important points of the text covered and identifying the most significant word (or words) within a scene or a joke.
During the lessons relating to text analysis the following points will be covered:
1 – USE OF THE PAUSE AND TONE VARIATIONS
2 - "EMOTIONAL COLOR” OF THE CHARACTER
For the meetings with the teacher-director Giancarlo Scarchilli, 4/6 lessons are planned in order to be able to tackle three main work steps:
For the meetings with the teacher-director, the students will have to learn a poem by heart (to be chosen from those selected by the teacher-director). They deal with topics aimed at stimulating the emotional sphere of the student-actor to help him get into a character (the lover, the hero, the coward, the idealist, the villain, etc.).
The student-actors will have to bring with them all the poems sent and equip themselves with a pencil, so as to be able to identify the words 'key' of the text and the use of pauses to highlight them.
The monologues will be freely chosen by the student-actors and are aimed at understanding the relationship between the director and the actor on the set.
The scenes, taken from films, will be assigned by the teacher-director based on the characteristics of the student-actors.
After the work on the analysis of the text, the variations in tone, the use of the pause and the 'emotional colour' of the character to be played, to make the student-actor understand how to relate in front of the camera and the importance of authenticity in cinema. The first floorlaw' the soul, we must learn to 'find' the right energy for the character you have to play.